Comments on: Listen to your hard drive’s S.M.A.R.T. status – part 2 http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/ News and views from the geek tie guy. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: GeekTieGuy » Listen to your hard drive’s S.M.A.R.T. status – part 3 http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-74688 GeekTieGuy » Listen to your hard drive’s S.M.A.R.T. status – part 3 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:21:39 +0000 http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/#comment-74688 [...] written about this topic a couple of times before. But it seems like another post is in order since my main box is now running Windows 7 and I’d [...] [...] written about this topic a couple of times before. But it seems like another post is in order since my main box is now running Windows 7 and I’d [...]

]]> By: GeekTieGuy http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-12742 GeekTieGuy Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:39:23 +0000 http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/#comment-12742 Glad to be able to help! Glad to be able to help!

]]> By: Ran http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-12739 Ran Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:31:22 +0000 http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/#comment-12739 Thanks for the tip on HDTune and the event log. A friend who's computer I recently worked on suddenly begin having issues yesterday with running very slow and displaying 'missing file' messages. Sure enough, a check of the event log revealed a slew of the following messages: ' The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D. has a bad block' guess it's time to get a new hard drive...... Thanks for the tip on HDTune and the event log.

A friend who’s computer I recently worked on suddenly begin having issues yesterday with running very slow and displaying ‘missing file’ messages.

Sure enough, a check of the event log revealed a slew of the following messages:

‘ The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D. has a bad block’

guess it’s time to get a new hard drive……

]]> By: Max Johnson http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-73794 Max Johnson Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/#comment-73794 I can't for the life of my fathom why Windows (heck, other OS's probably aren't much better) doesn't report perhaps the most serious hardware fault out there - one of the few it can actually detect! Sure, a dodgy PSU or graphics card might put your PC out of commission until replaced, but for the majority of people with no backup routine and a single HDD, an early warning would be a godsend before they lose their personal data! I can’t for the life of my fathom why Windows (heck, other OS’s probably aren’t much better) doesn’t report perhaps the most serious hardware fault out there – one of the few it can actually detect!
Sure, a dodgy PSU or graphics card might put your PC out of commission until replaced, but for the majority of people with no backup routine and a single HDD, an early warning would be a godsend before they lose their personal data!

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